Yeimi Aguilar Cifuentes Explained

Office:Federal deputy
Constituency:Chiapas's 5th
Legislature:65th Congress
Predecessor:Clementina Marta Dekker Gómez
Successor:Emilio Ramón Ramírez Guzmán
Birth Date:1989 1, df=y
Term Start:29 August 2021
Term End:31 August 2024

Yeimi Aguilar Cifuentes (born 3 January 1989)[1] is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).[2] In the 2021 mid-terms, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Congress of the Union to represent the fifth federal electoral district of Chiapas. Her term of office ran from 29 August 2021 to 31 August 2024.

At the time of her election, doubt on her indigineity was cast by her opponent and predecessor as federal deputy, Clementina Marta Dekker Gómez. However her indigenous status was approved by the National Electoral Institute (INE).[3] She has also called on the Mexican government to provide bilingual and intercultural education for the indigenous peoples of Mexico.[4] She has spoken out on the importance of safe routes for migrants in Mexico, and the significance of human trafficking in the Chiapas region.[5]

Aguilar also proposed that when convicted of femicide, men should lose custody of their children, citing the .[6] She has also supported voting rights for migrant voters, and a commemorative coin scheme in Chiapas.

References

  1. Web site: Perfil: Dip. Yeimi Yazmín Aguilar Cifuentes, LXV Legislatura . . Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) . 2024-08-19.
  2. Web site: GPPRI . Comunicación . 2023-10-07 . Erradicar desigualdades, prioridad de mi trabajo legislativo: diputada priísta Yeimi Aguilar . 2024-08-19 . Diputados Federales PRI . es.
  3. Web site: López . Isaí . Ratifica TEPJF triunfo de Yeimi Yazmín Aguilar Cifuentes en SCLC . 2024-08-19 . El Heraldo de Chiapas . es.
  4. Web site: 2024-08-19 . Comunicación . 2024-08-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240819204923/https://comunicacionsocial.diputados.gob.mx/index.php/notilegis/propone-yeimi-aguilar-que-educacion-biling-e-llegue-a-comunidades-indigenas . 2024-08-19 .
  5. Web site: 2023-04-12 . Avalan en comisión de asuntos migratorios exhorto de Yeimi Aguilar para salvaguardar derechos humanos de migrantes . 2024-08-19 . www.muralchiapas.com . es.
  6. Web site: Redacción . 2023-03-21 . La diputada Yeimi Aguilar propone la pérdida de la patria potestad para sentenciados por feminicidio . 2024-08-19 . Fer Moctezuma . es.